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Secondly seems to have launched something of a public relations campaign, which they don't do very well, by the way. they see the open debate. they see what happened in britain. they see the polls in the united states that shows the american public doesn't want to intervene in syria in a meaningful way. they think they can influence that and thirdly, we must not forget he's fighting an active civil war and trying not to focus on the u.s. -- on a u.s. strike more than they have to because they have to maintain -- they have to maintain their forces and poisture against the rebel forces. >> how i...

Between chris murphy and secretary of state john kerry. >> now we have this most recent use of weapons of mass destruction and contra vengs of nearly 100 years of prohibition of their use. >> that's not the dispute -- >> but the dispute is -- >> the ability of the military to be influenced -- >> no, no, the dispute is what are you prepared to do about it? that's the dispute. >> senator murphy is joining us now. senator murphy, we have the text, the chairman of the committee, your chairman released this actual text of the resolution. you will have to vote on tomorrow. it says the president is a...

And ultimately, we'll make an individual decision. i think american people need to be consulted. if we want to rally them around action to stop iran from getting a new clear weapon, then we maybe have to pay attention to what they say here, and i worry that publicly everyone is war weary and will get more tired if we go into syria and will make it more difficult if we need to take steps from preventing iran from having a nuclear weapon. >> john mccain said he thinks he has a commitment from president obama to start sending lethal weapons to the rebels in syria. the president made that commitme...

By the syrian government in the conflict in syria and two, deter syria's use of such weapons in order to protect the military security of the interests of the united states and protect our allies and three, degrade syria's capacity to use such weapons in the future. are you going to vote in favor or against the resolution? >> that text is only a few minutes old, so i think i'll take the evening and morning to review it. as you heard in that chapin x change with secretary kerry, i'm a skeptic this is the right way to go. i think secretary kerry made a strong case we have probably a national sec...

We need to send to syria and to the world, to dictators and terrorist and allies and civilians alike the unmistakable message that when the united states of america and the world say never again, we don't mean sometimes. we don't mean somewhere, never means never. >> a fiery john kerry today making the case for u.s. military strikes on syria, very tough talk but is that the best option. back with me richard hass the president of the counsel of foreign relations. what happened to the coalition the u.s. would like to get involved in another arab country like syria? >> the short answer, as you kn...